cất quyền
Definition
- Verb:
- To deprive someone of authority or rights: The primary meaning of "cất quyền" is to officially remove or strip someone of their rights, privileges, or official authority.
- To disenfranchise: Specifically, it can mean to deprive someone of their civil or citizenship rights.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Tòa án có thể cất quyền công dân của người phạm tội nghiêm trọng. (The court can deprive a serious offender of their citizen rights.)
- Hội đồng quản trị đã cất quyền của vị giám đốc cũ. (The board of directors stripped the former director of his authority.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in formal, legal, or administrative contexts concerning the removal of civil rights or official power.
- It implies an authoritative or judicial action, not a personal or informal one.
Variants and Related Words
- Tước quyền (v): to strip of rights/authority. This is a more common synonym in modern usage.
- Bị tước quyền bầu cử. (To be deprived of the right to vote.)
Synonyms
- To deprive: to take something away from someone.
- To disenfranchise: to deprive someone of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
- To strip (of authority/rights): to remove power or rights officially.
Related Idioms
- Cất quyền công dân: to deprive of citizenship rights. This is a fixed legal phrase.
- Một bản án nặng có thể dẫn đến việc cất quyền công dân. (A severe sentence can lead to deprivation of citizenship rights.)
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Deprive somebody of his rights as a citizen
